Chief Technology Officer

Doit; Petaling Jaya; Hybrid; MYR 360,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Doit seeks a CTO to own technology for our regulated investment platform in Malaysia. This is a build role in a risk-managed environment, from architecture to evidence for registration. You will lead architecture decisions, build the engineering team, and ensure secure, scalable systems.

You will drive technology risk compliance, implement change control, and oversee cloud and outsourcing arrangements while maintaining hands-on technical involvement.

Qualifications

• Deep software engineering background and track record building scalable production systems.
• Strong knowledge of backend systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Experience making architecture decisions across multiple products or teams.
• Ability to build and lead world-class engineering teams and still review code and architecture hands-on.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and major technical decisions for the platform, from onboarding and routing through records, reporting and interfaces.
• Build and lead the engineering team, setting standards for reliability, security, performance, testing and code quality.
• Implement technology risk requirements as engineering practice: change control, secure development, testing and acceptance.
• Produce the systems evidence behind readiness declarations for regulatory approvals.
• Guide the platform through independent technology validation and address findings.
• Own business continuity and disaster recovery, tested and proven.
• Oversee cloud, vendor and outsourcing arrangements with board accountability.

Skills

Deep software engineering

Backend systems

APIs

Databases

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Architecture decisions

Leadership of engineers

Hands-on architecture review

Job description

We are focused on reinventing how people spend, save, invest, exchange, travel, and more. Our objective is to build tools that will help people get more from their money and become an expert at ease. We believe AI will help make finance smart, assessible and safe.

We are looking for the most talented and driven people we can find. We are looking for people who work for their passion, not counting hours. Who loves building great next-generation products, not status quo. Who cares about redefining how everyone around us can get the best financial applications, not for an exclusive few. We have teams working around the world, with over 20 nationalities and growing from our offices and remotely. Join us and build a better future for our society.

In 2019, we built the first mobile-first, insurance platform, enabling insurance to be accessible online by millions in the region. Today, it's the leading insurance platform in Southeast Asia.

About the Role

The CTO will own technology for doit Holdings, our regulated investment platform in Malaysia. This is a build role. The platform does not exist yet, and it has to be built inside a technology risk framework that satisfies the Securities Commission's Guidelines on Technology Risk Management from the first line of code. The role runs from architecture and engineering execution through to the systems evidence the SC assesses at registration.

What you will be doing

• Own architecture and major technical decisions for the platform, from onboarding and order routing through records, reporting and the partner interfaces.
• Build and lead the engineering team, and set standards across reliability, security, performance, testing and code quality.
• Implement the SC's technology risk requirements as engineering practice: change control and approvals, secure development, testing and acceptance, capacity and resilience.
• Produce the systems evidence behind the readiness declaration a director and the Responsible Person must sign before the platform may operate.
• Take the platform through the independent technology validation that gates registration, and close what it finds.
• Own business continuity and disaster recovery, tested rather than documented.
• Own cloud, vendor and outsourcing arrangements, where the board remains accountable for everything outsourced.

What you will need

• Deep software engineering background with experience building and scaling production systems.
• Strong knowledge of backend systems, APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Experience making architecture decisions across multiple products or engineering teams.
• Strong technical judgement and ability to challenge engineering decisions at implementation level.
• Capable of building world-class engineering teams.
• Still technically hands-on - able to review code, architecture, incidents and difficult engineering problems directly.

Location

This is a hybrid role. You are expected to work from our local office at least 3 days per week, with the remaining days offering flexibility to work remotely.

Candidates should be based in, or able to work from, the location where the role is advertised.

Language

English is our main working language across global teams. Strong English communication is required.

Interview Process

Our process is designed to move fast:

1. Online assessment or practical task

2. Technical interview

3. CEO / final round

For strong candidates, we aim to complete the process and make an offer within 1 week from the start of the interview process. Candidates who complete assessments quickly will be prioritized.